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| Jack Howe | 2 | Opponent: Shreyas Venkatsubramanian | Judge: Jared Burke 1AC - Pandemics 1NC - Cap 1ar - all 2NR - cap 2AR - cap case |
| Loyola | 1 | Opponent: Nathan Wei | Judge: Dylan Jones 1AC - TRIPS 1NC - Dipcap DA India DA T - reduce case 1AR - Condo bad everything 2NR - Condo Good India DA Case 2AR - Case India DA |
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0 - Contact InfoTournament: Contact Info | Round: 1 | Opponent: me | Judge: me Discord - lydia#7494 Email - lydiawang327@gmail.com Phone number - 4252409655 | 8/29/21 |
0 - NavigationTournament: navigation | Round: 1 | Opponent: me | Judge: me | 9/6/21 |
1 - Theory - Solvency AdvocateTournament: Loyola | Round: 4 | Opponent: Nathan Gong | Judge: Derek Hillgoss Interpretation: The plan text must represent the solvency advocateViolation: feldman card is specific to FDA drug regulations, which doesn’t apply to other member nations of WTOVote neg:1—limits—the aff can just spec any actor without any relationship to the lit and kills ground since no one’s writing it shown by the fact that their solvency advocate is about an international waiver on IP rights and has no relation whatsoever to the way they’re going to advocate their plan2—predictability—it’s unpredictable to engage the AFF if they’re not rooted in the topic literature – that makes pre-tournament prep uselessDTD to deter future abuseCI bc reasonability is arbitrary and invite interventionNo RVIs – 1 – illogical to win for being fair, 2 – theory baiting – best theory debaters will read abusive affs to bait theory, 3 – chills substance bc any theory means the round becomes an RVI debateNeg theory 1st bc the aff abuse was first so anything we did that was bad was simply to get back in the game. | 9/6/21 |
SO - DA - Dip CapTournament: Loyola | Round: 1 | Opponent: Nathan Wei | Judge: Dylan Jones The United States should publicly renounce its support for any COVID TRIPS waivers.Current US diplomatic efforts solve climate change BUT diplomatic capital is keyYu 20 Alan Yu, a senior fellow and the director of International Climate Policy at the Center for American Progress. Previously, he was a career foreign service officer at the State Department., 12-8-2020, "How U.S. Diplomacy and Diplomats Can Help Get International Climate Action Back on Track," Center for American Progress, https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/green/reports/2020/12/08/493528/u-s-diplomacy-diplomats-can-help-get-international-climate-action-back-track/, accessed 7/27/2021 EH AND These recommendations should go a long way in enabling them to do so. Biden is currently avoiding disagreements with other WTO members over TRIPS. The plan flips that to create consensus, expending critical dip-capDay 7-19, Meagan Day is a staff writer at Jacobin. Jacobin, 7-19-21. "Biden Just Turned Down a Golden Opportunity to End Vaccine Apartheid" https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/07/biden-administration-covid-19-vaccine-apartheid-global-south-distribution-merkel brett AND still an open question how serious he is about making it a reality. Dip-cap is finite—-the plan distracts US focusAnderson and Grewell 01 Terry L. Anderson is executive director of Political Economy Research Center / J. Bishop Grewell is a research associate with PERC, The Greening of Foreign Policy, Chicago Journal of International Law Fall, 2001 2 Chi. J. Int'l L. 427 (Lexis-Nexis) AND States focus its diplomatic efforts on issues of paramount importance to the nation. Warming encompasses AND outweighs every existential threatTorres 16 (Phil, affiliate scholar @ Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies PhD candidate @ Rice University in tropical conservation biology, Op-ed: Climate Change Is the Most Urgent Existential Risk, http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/Torres20160807) AND the near-term. Let’s make sure we get our priorities straight. | 9/4/21 |
SO - DA - IndiaTournament: Loyola | Round: 1 | Opponent: Nathan Wei | Judge: Dylan Jones India is building it’s relations with the West on the bedrock of new economic ties¬¬¬¬¬—-that’s key to counterbalancing China in the regionMohan 21 C. Raja Mohan ~director of the National University of Singapore’s Institute of South Asian Studies.~,3-19-2021, "India Romances the West," Foreign Policy, https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/03/19/india-modi-west-quad-china-biden-non-aligned/ , accessed 8/8/2021 EH and Brett AND rooted in the simple calculus of national interest rather than any involved reasoning. The TRIPS waiver sets the stage for India to use forced tech transfer to secure vaccines—-that decks relationsYogesh Pai and Prashant Reddy Thikkavarapu 21, Dr. Yogesh Pai has a PhD from the Inter-University Centre for IPR Studies, CUSAT, Kochi, in the area of Regulation of Standard-Essential Patents in India. Prashant Reddy Thikkavarapu Assistant Professor, National Academy of Legal Studies and Research (NALSAR) University of Law,. Hyderabad. Scrolli.in, Jun 01, 2021. "Even if WTO waives IP on vaccines, India will face challenge translating this into mass production" https://scroll.in/article/996079/even-if-wto-waives-ip-on-vaccines-india-will-face-challenge-translating-this-into-mass-production brett AND to new firms willing to produce vaccines will lead to actual vaccine production. US-India economic ties are key to strategic co-operationGupta 20, Anubhav Gupta is the associate director of the Asia Society Policy Institute in New York. WPR, March 5, 2020. "Despite the Trump-Modi ‘Love,’ Trade Is Still the Weak Link in U.S.-India Relations" https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/28579/despite-the-trump-modi-love-trade-is-still-the-weak-link-in-us-india-relations brett AND partnership that is "stronger than ever before" ring a little hollow. Indian ocean goes nuclear—-India’s role is key to prevent it.Gamage 17 (Rajni Gamage is a senior analyst with the Maritime Security Programme at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore., 11/5/17, "Why the Indian Ocean Must Not Become Like the South China Sea", https://nationalinterest.org/feature/why-the-indian-ocean-must-not-become-the-south-china-sea-23028?page=02C2) AND code of conduct (COC) for the Indian Ocean was first proposed. | 9/4/21 |
SO - K - CapTournament: Loyola | Round: 4 | Opponent: Nathan Gong | Judge: Derek Hillgoss The aff’s positioning of competition as intrinsic good acts to maintain the stability of capital accumulation.AT: Capitalism is when monopoly AND the law as the primary, necessarily mutable, instrument of such maintenance. The aff is co-opted by an agenda of "health diplomacy" that only further expands capitalist imperialismAndrea Patanè 21. Marxist, Published: 15 May 2021. "COVID-19 pandemic: patents and profits" https://www.marxist.com/covid-19-pandemic-patents-and-profits.htm brett AND ‘America First’, just by somewhat more calculated means than his predecessor. Capitalism causes massive violence and inevitable extinction – the fundamental task is developing tools for organization and tactics to bring about revolution.Escalante 19 ~Alyson Escalante, M.A., Department of Philosophy @ University of Oregon, "Truth and Practice: The Marxist Theory of Knowledge," 09/08/19, tinyurl.com/8jksnexs~ pat AND scientific status of Marxism, and must insist on the possibility of victory. Vote neg to join the party – dual power organizing is the only path to revolutionary change.Escalante ‘18 AND to the soviets" will be heard again. Lets make it happen. | 9/6/21 |
SO - K - Cap v2Tournament: Loyola | Round: 5 | Opponent: Dhruv Raghaven | Judge: Ben Cortez The aff’s positioning of competition as intrinsic good acts to maintain the stability of capital accumulation.AT: Capitalism is when monopoly AND the law as the primary, necessarily mutable, instrument of such maintenance. The aff is co-opted by an agenda of "health diplomacy" that only further expands capitalist imperialismAndrea Patanè 21. Marxist, Published: 15 May 2021. "COVID-19 pandemic: patents and profits" https://www.marxist.com/covid-19-pandemic-patents-and-profits.htm brett AND ‘America First’, just by somewhat more calculated means than his predecessor. Capitalism causes war, violence, environmental destruction and extinction -Robinson 14 (William I., Prof. of Sociology, Global and International Studies, and Latin American Studies, @ UC-Santa Barbara, "Global Capitalism: Crisis of Humanity and the Specter of 21st Century Fascism" The World Financial Review) AND indeed, generates a fascination with domination that is portrayed even as heroic. the judge has an intellectual obligation to evaluate the social relations that underpin the plan prior to evaluating the outcome of the policy.Pala Basil Mera 14, Victoria University of Wellington philosophy PhD, Accounting For Apocalypse Re-Thinking Social Accounting Theory And Practice For Our Time Of Social Crises And Ecological Collapse, https://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10063/3686/thesis.pdf?sequence=2 AND existing social systems might be playing in producing and exacerbating them. Vote neg to join the party – dual power organizing is the only path to revolutionary change.Escalante ‘18 AND to the soviets" will be heard again. Lets make it happen. | 9/5/21 |
SO - K - Cap v3Tournament: Jack Howe | Round: 2 | Opponent: Shreyas Venkatsubramanian | Judge: Jared Burke 1NC — KCapitalism causes massive violence and inevitable extinction – the role of the ballot is to endorse the best organizational tactics.Escalante 19 ~Alyson Escalante, M.A., Department of Philosophy @ University of Oregon, "Truth and Practice: The Marxist Theory of Knowledge," 09/08/19, tinyurl.com/8jksnexs~ pat AND scientific status of Marxism, and must insist on the possibility of victory. The aff’s positioning of competition as intrinsic good acts to maintain the stability of capital accumulation.AT: Capitalism is when monopoly AND the law as the primary, necessarily mutable, instrument of such maintenance. The aff is co-opted by an agenda of "health diplomacy" that only further expands capitalist imperialismAndrea Patanè 21. Marxist, Published: 15 May 2021. "COVID-19 pandemic: patents and profits" https://www.marxist.com/covid-19-pandemic-patents-and-profits.htm brett AND ‘America First’, just by somewhat more calculated means than his predecessor. The TRIPS waiver saves the WTO — the crown jewel of modern capitalism.Meyer 21, David Meyer, 6-18-2021, "The WTO’s survival hinges on the COVID-19 vaccine patent debate, waiver advocates warn – Fortune," Fortune, https://fortune.com/2021/06/18/wto-covid-vaccines-patents-waiver-south-africa-trips/amp/, EH and brett AND what are still daunting structural problems." Those problems are legion. Capitalist trade is central to global warming.Bello 08 Walden, senior analyst at the Bangkok-based research and advocacy institute Focus on the Global South and professor at the University of the Philippines, July 28, "Derail Doha, Save the Climate", http://www.commondreams.org/views/2008/07/29/derail-doha-save-climate/ brett AND likely negative ecological consequences of a successful deal, it’s a necessary condition. Capitalist peace is wrong — interdependence multiplies the risk of war.Lucas Hahn 16. Bryant University. April, 2016. Global Economic Expansion and the Prevalence of Militarized Interstate Disputes. https://digitalcommons.bryant.edu/honors'economics/24/ brett *MIDs = Militarized Interstate Disputes AND often becomes disproportionate between two nations and as a result trade promotes conflict. Capitalism is unsustainable and causes extinction — multiple intertwined crises make collapse inevitable which means its try-or-die — we got charts.von Weizsäcker and Wijkman ’17 Ernest Ulrich von Weizsäcker, Professor and Director of the United Nation Centre for Science and Technology for Development, Founder and President of the Wuppertal Institute, Member of the German Bundestag, chairing the Committees on Globalization and the Environment, Dean of the graduate School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California, appointed Co-Chair of UNEP’s International Resource Panel, Anders Wijkman, chairman of the Swedish Association of Recycling Industries, member of the Board of the Swedish Development Authority (SIDA), appointed chair of the Swedish Cross-Party Committee on Environmental Objectives, member of the European Parliament, Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and Policy Director of UNDP, Secretary General of the Swedish Red Cross and Director General of the Swedish Agency for Research Cooperation with Developing Countries, Member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, the World Future Council and the International Resource Panel, 2017 ("Come On! Capitalism, Short-termism, Population and the Destruction of the Planet – A Report to the Club", November 11th, Available Online via Subscription to Springer, Accessed 03-20-2018) AND upon as high-risk assets (see Sect. 3.4). Vote negative for proletarian internationalism — only an organized global revolutionary struggle can overcome the destruction of capitalism.Anastasi et al, 18 (editorial collective of Viewpoint Magazine, a militant research collective working to dialectically bring theory and practice into dialogue by studying cycles of struggle. Alphabetically, members of the editorial collective are as follows: Andrew Anastasi, graduate student in Sociology at CUNY; Cinzia Arruzza, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research; Robert Cavooris, UC Santa Cruz graduate student and union representative, History of Consciousness Department; Maya Andrea Gonzalez, communist and revolutionary feminist in the Bay Area, graduate student in the Department of History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz; Asad Haider, Assistant Professor of Philosophy @ The New School, founding editor of Viewpoint Magazine, PhD in History of Consciousness Department @ UC Santa Cruz; Shuja Haider, widely-published writer and musician based in Brooklyn; Bue Rübner Hansen, writer and activist researcher in the Britain, Barcelona, and in migrant and refugee solidarity movements, PhD from Queen Mary University; Patrick King, graduate student at UC Santa Cruz; Rosa Lee, communist organizer and member of the Viewpoint editorial collective; Ben Mabie, managing editor at Viewpoint and editorial assistant at Verso Books, UCSC graduate; Sarah Mason, member of the Viewpoint editorial collective; Liz Mason-Deese, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Geoinformation Science, George Mason University; Dave Mesing, PhD student in Philosophy @ Villanova University; Magally Miranda-Alcazar, Eugene Cota-Robles Fellow and a Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellow, PhD student in Chicana/o Studies @ UCLA; B.A. from the University of California, Santa Cruz (magna cum laude) with a double major in Community Studies and Feminist Studies, and has been published in The Nation, Verso and the New Left Review; Salar Mohandesi, Assistant Professor of History @ Bowdoin; Gavin Mueller, Lecturer in Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam, former contributing editor @ Jacobin; Evan Calder Williams, writer, translater, and artist, teaches theory at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College and film production at Cooper Union, PhD in Literature from the University of California Santa Cruz and was a Fulbright Fellow in Italy for his research on cinema, industry, and revolt. "Internationalism against Imperialism," Viewpoint Magazine, Issue 6, February 1, 2018, https://www.viewpointmag.com/2018/02/01/internationalism-against-imperialism/) AND -term work of thinking and struggling against imperialism in the 21st century. CaseCOVIDCan’t solve COVID until 2022 – prefer our evidence based on supply chain expertsGarde et al 5-6 ~Damian Garde , Helen Branswell and Matthew Herper May 6, 2021, 5-6-2021, "Waiver of patent rights on Covid vaccines may be mostly symbolic, for now," STAT, https://www.statnews.com/2021/05/06/waiver-of-patent-rights-on-covid-19-vaccines-in-near-term-may-be-more-symbolic-than-substantive/ ~ Lydia AND provide a financial incentive for those third parties to invest in vaccine production. The issue is lack of resources, not IPR.Brown 21, Delphine Knight Brown is a Partner in the firm’s Litigation Practice Group, and Intellectual Property Litigation Group. With over twenty years of trial experience, Delphine’s practice focuses on complex intellectual property and technology cases, with extensive experience in the life sciences industry. Freeborn Attorneys at Law, Summer 2021. "Will TRIPS Waiver of IP Protection for COVID-19 Vaccines Serve Global Need?" https://www.freeborn.com/sites/default/files/downloads/Powerhouse20Points'Newsletter'Summer20202120Final.pdf brett AND -all proposition. Ensuring equitable availability and delivery complicates the matter further. New manufacturers trade off with current ones —- turns case because they won’t make vaccines as effectively.Jonathan H. Spadt and Andrew J. Koopman 5-24, Jonathan H. Spadt is the Chief Executive Officer and President of RatnerPrestia. Andrew J. Koopman, J.D., Temple University Beasley School of Law (2008) Vice President, Intellectual Property Law Society Member, Intellectual Property Moot Court team Staff Writer, International and Comparative Law Journal B.S., Engineering Physics, Cornell University (2005) Minor in Electrical Engineering. 5-24-21, RatnerPrestia. "The "Moral" Waiver of IP Protection For COVID Vaccines: Why The US Proposal Creates More Problems Than It Solves" https://www.ratnerprestia.com/2021/05/24/the-moral-waiver-of-ip-protection-for-covid-vaccines-why-the-us-proposal-creates-more-problems-than-it-solves/ brett AND the ability to produce vaccines with the quality and throughput of current suppliers. ZoonoticThe TRIPS Waiver is temporary; it ends after 3 years — that means they only can make response to zoonotic diseases easier for that 3 year period.No risk of terrorPinker 18—Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University ~Steven, February 2018, Enlightment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, Chapter 13: Terrorism, Viking, Accessed through the Wake Forest Library~ AMarb AND not of how dangerous our society has become, but of how safe. Worst-case scenarios got nowhere and caused no damageEasterbrook 18—Author of eleven books, he has been a staff writer, national correspondent or contributing editor of The Atlantic for nearly 40 years, was a fellow in economics, then in government studies, at the Brookings Institution, and a fellow in international affairs at the Fulbright Foundation ~Gregg, February 2018, It's Better Than It Looks: Reasons for Optimism in an Age of Fear, Chapter 2: Why, Despite All Our Bad Habits, Do We Keep Living Longer?, pgs 37-8, Google Play~ AMarb AND mammals have spent hundreds of millions of years evolving defenses against biological assault. No impact—terrorists can’t make bioweaponsRevill, 17 – Research Fellow with the Harvard Sussex Program at SPRU (James, "Past as Prologue? The Risk of Adoption of Chemical and Biological Weapons by Non-State Actors in the EU", European Journal of Risk Regulation, p. 626–642, 2017, https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/6B824CDE0E25FD86AC3D0BD07822A743/S1867299X17000356a.pdf/div-class-title-past-as-prologue-the-risk-of-adoption-of-chemical-and-biological-weapons-by-non-state-actors-in-the-eu-div.pdf) ANK AND for the weapon, the greater the practical difficulties of achieving it".65 BioD loss won’t cascadeEasterbrook 18—Author of eleven books, he has been a staff writer, national correspondent or contributing editor of The Atlantic for nearly 40 years, was a fellow in economics, then in government studies, at the Brookings Institution, and a fellow in international affairs at the Fulbright Foundation ~Gregg, February 2018, It's Better Than It Looks: Reasons for Optimism in an Age of Fear, Chapter 3: Will Nature Collapse?, pgs 57-8, Google Play~ AMarb AND threatened class, because their isolated habitats increasingly come into contact with people. BJPT/L – all the escalation scenariors based on teritory disputes are because of the thrive for capital accumulation – means we control root causeBJP nationalism is non-uq - he has motive to drum up nationalism regardless of vaccines because that’s his key base of political support.All our COVID answers are link turns — if we win there will be sufficient vaccine access in the squo then India won’t fill the void AND if we win the AFF hurts access then it worsens nationalism.No Escalation –Pakistan knows they won’t win despite aggressive rhetoric.Rajesh Rajagopalan, Professor of International Politics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 5-5-2017, "Escalate to deter the Pakistan army," ORF, https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/escalate-to-deter-the-pakistan-army/ DH AND than assume that Rawalpindi's rhetoric is an indicator of how they will behave. India won’t start a conflict — no incentive.Raghu Raman, is a distinguished fellow at the Observer Research Foundation (ORF). He is also a columnist, author, former CEO of NATGRID, speaker, ex-soldier and UN Peacekeeper., 5-24-2017, "For all the chest-thumping, India cannot win a war against Pakistan," Quartz, https://qz.com/990579/for-all-the-chest-thumping-india-cannot-win-a-war-against-pakistan/ DH AND , India needs to build that strength first rather than spewing ineffectual rhetoric. | 9/18/21 |
SO - T - ReduceTournament: Loyola | Round: 1 | Opponent: Nathan Wei | Judge: Dylan Jones Interpretation: The affirmative must defend a permanent reduction in intellectual property protections for medicines.Allowing the possibility of a future increase violates the core meaning of the term "reduce".US Federal Court of Appeals 1999 "CUNA MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Defendant-Appellee," Lexis AND be interpreted, as CUNA would treat it, to mean "increase." Reductions are different from suspensions. Suspensions are temporary, reductions are not.Montesani v Levitt 59 ~MATTER OF MONTESANI v. Levitt, 9 A.D.2d 51, 189 N.Y.S.2d 695 (App. Div. 1959), 8-13-1959, Accessible Online at https://scholar.google.com/scholar'case?case=1402552157078234696andq=Montesani+v.+Levittandhl=enandas'sdt=2006~~ brett AND and Social Security Law, § 101 ~§ 84 under the 1947 act~.) Violation: ~1AC solvency advocate~Vote neg:1~ Precision—-all neg prep is centered on words in the resolution, the precise definition of our word from a legal source means it’d be the most predictable in the lit.2~ Aff conditionality—-they can de-link core neg ground like innovation by saying they’ll protect IP again after the pandemic, as well as enabling cheaty perms that kill plan vs CP clash. | 9/4/21 |
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